May 24, 2007

CONTACT: Luke Brymer, Communications and Marketing, Wallace State
Community College, luke.brymer@wallacestate.edu, 256/352-8231



Award Winning Photographer to Offer Workshops at Wallace State



HANCEVILLE, Ala.- Award winning photographer David Haynes will be
teaching four workshops on photography at Wallace State Community
College in Hanceville this summer. The Saturday workshops, which begin
June 9 and run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each class meeting, will be offered
through Wallace State's continuing education program.



The first class will focus on photographing north Alabama waterfalls.
Participants will meet on the Wallace State-Hanceville campus at 8 a.m.
and caravan to waterfalls in Blount County, Guntersville and DeKalb
County where Haynes will instruct students on the art of photographing
moving water.



On Saturday, June 23, the class will head to the Sipsey Wilderness. This
workshop will concentrate on nature studies as students photograph
landscapes, rock formations and other natural subject matter.



A trip to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens will be the focus of the next
excursion on Saturday, July 7. Students will spend the day on close-up
and nature photography of flowers and bugs and other scenery at the
Gardens.



The final trip will be on Saturday, July 21, and will concentrate on
photographing people outside. The class will travel to a location to do
portraits of people in an outdoor environment. Haynes will be
instructing students on techniques for lighting and posing outdoors.



Participants in these workshops should wear comfortable shoes and bring
a lunch.



Haynes, a professional photographer for 25 years, works from his home in
Blount Springs. He has experience in portrait, wedding, commercial and
advertising photography, as well as photojournalism. His current focus
is black and white portrait and fine art photography, guiding
photography excursions and teaching photographic techniques.



He has been the recipient of more than 40 awards, and since leaving the
newspaper business Haynes' images have been published in numerous
publications and featured in gallery exhibitions in several cities. Some
of his recent projects include photographs for a book on Cumberland
Island, Ga., and Alabama 2000, The Millennium Project. He was awarded
an artist fellowship by the Alabama State Council on the Arts for
2001-2002.



For more information about the photography class or other offerings by
Wallace State Continuing Education, contact Stacy Bryan at 256/352-8166
or email staci.bryan@wallacestate.edu.

  Kristen Holmes
  Director, Communications and Marketing
  Wallace State Community College
  P.O. Box 2000
  Hanceville, AL 35077
  256/352-8118
  E-mail: Kristen.Holmes@WallaceState.edu